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United States Patent | 5,176,298 |
Mogler ,   et al. | January 5, 1993 |
A tap head for keg fittings having an actuating lever pivotally mounted on a housing and connected to a slide movable in the housing and detent members positively engaging in one another to lock the actuating lever and with one of the detent members directly biased toward the stop position and in which the detent members are formed of plastic and are made up of an elastically self-biasing tongue cooperating with a detent edge with one of the tongue and detent edge formed integrally on the housing and the other of the tongue and detent edge integrally formed on the actuating lever and with connections for gas and liquid connectable via the slide with corresponding passages in the keg fittings.
Inventors: | Mogler; Joachim (Austrasse 34, Heilbronn, DE); Wiedmann; Helmut (Heilbronn, DE) |
Assignee: | Mogler; Joachim (Heilbronn, DE) |
Appl. No.: | 721634 |
Filed: | July 11, 1991 |
PCT Filed: | January 10, 1990 |
PCT NO: | PCT/EP90/00051 |
371 Date: | July 11, 1991 |
102(e) Date: | July 11, 1991 |
PCT PUB.NO.: | WO90/08728 |
PCT PUB. Date: | August 9, 1990 |
Jan 28, 1989[DE] | 3902527 |
Current U.S. Class: | 222/400.7; 137/212; 137/322; 141/352; 141/354; 141/357; 222/394; 251/89; 251/319; 251/325 |
Intern'l Class: | B65D 083/00 |
Field of Search: | 222/394,400.7,400.8,401 137/212,322 141/351,352,354,355,357 251/89,319,324,325 |
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